thoughts on dealing with basewiki links

[ikiwiki.git] / doc / todo / do_not_make_links_backwards.mdwn

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@@ -40,3 +40,9 @@ The following needs to be done:
 >> There are quite likely ikiwiki page generators that build wikilinks
 >> too. One that's part of ikiwiki itself is `change.tmpl`. There may be
 >> others... --[[Joey]]
+
+>>> Agreed that it would be cleaner to just change everything, even though the transition might be painful.
+
+>>> Another interim option might be to change the basewiki links to be just \[[link to whatever]] without having a description.
+>>> That style of link would work whether the link style was "backwards" or "forwards".  Unfortunately it could make some links less readable; after all, there is a reason why one wants to be able to change the link text!  But I don't know what proportion of the links are like that.  It's a thought, anyway.
+>>> --[[KathrynAndersen]]